This post must be written in Portuguese first. I’m going to speak about the exhibition “Portugal in the Trenches: the First War of the Republic”.

Since I’m very interested in this period of our history and my great-grandfather was a male-nurse in WWI, I have to start by saying that I was very pleased to finally see an exhibition like this dedicated to CEP (Portuguese Expeditionary Corps). Despite missing some objects of the soldiers equipment and the identification of some items, this exhibition surprised me by the positive because it presents a good quantity of items including diaries, uniforms, gas-masks and identity discs (“dog-tags”). Besides the objects of the soldiers and generals is also possible to find a space dedicated to the doctors and nurses, in which we find some photographs and items of the nurses of the Portuguese Red Cross and GADE (Lady-nurses Auxiliary Group). The corridors with burlap bags and the sounds of war we hear in the background give an even more interesting touch, framing the visitor in the exhibition.

In my opinion this exhibitions is worth visiting. It will be in the Museu da Politécnica in Lisbon until Abril 23.

Chapas de identificação: a de cima é de um soldado e está aberta mostrando uma fotografia da sua famila; a de baixo (fechada) é de uma enfermeira da CVP / “Dog-tags”: the first is from a soldier and is open showing a picture of his family; the second (closed) is from a Red Cross nurse.